God Quotes

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

George Bernard Shaw

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

Benjamin Franklin

Time and the heavens came into being at the same instant, in order that, if they were ever to dissolve, they might be dissolved together. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time.

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

Thomas Jefferson

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Michel de Montaigne

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

William Shakespeare